#predesterone

theres obviously a lot of people posting rn but ill try to get some links together to sum it up as best i can find- keep in mind i never followed her myself and only distantly knew of her so there are people closer to the situation that probably have more stuff they can tell you though, and searching her url(s) has a lot of info

avery has i think two blogs deleted yeah, unsure about any older ones but predstrogen and avewy/predesterone were both deleted very recently

predstrogen (the first blog) was allegedly deleted for "sexually explicit material" despite any posts that may have been labelled as such being marked with a community label and her blog recently being manually approved as NOT containing adult content. she also talks in this post, as well as here, about how she has had a support ticket open for several months for harassment she was receiving that has not been dealt with

this is an example of the threats and harassment she has been receiving. ive seen a few different people get this ask copy pasted

the CEO of tumblr made a post wherin he publicly aired information regarding her deletion and threatened legal action against her , showing examples of the alleged death threats where no actual threats were made and telling people in the replies to just leave if they were unhappy with the moderation of the site

avery made a post about this and her new blog was again deleted within five minutes of her making it

multiple people who have made posts about the situation have said matt has DMed them and confronted them

this is word im hearing secondhand, so if i get any details wrong please correct me, but posts of hers such as her transition timeline are apparently ones that were flagged. i cant find any screenshots but many of her posts, including one that was a silly edit of a snow leapord wearing shoes, have been completely wiped from the site. if anyone has a screenshot or link to both the original post and it being deleted i can add it to this

Trans geber

Fuck @staff

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it is INCREDIBLE to me that this mother fucker thinks we will buy this shit, ESPECIALLY after on the next fuckin morning he was still harassing predesterone on twitter. Not only that but this man is desperately grasping at straws lying his ass off trying to go "IM NOT THE BAD GUY"

IDK if I can list all the things wrong. I'll group them.

"...every single violation..." Yeah, hyperbole is working terrifically for you. Keep going, yes. Go, go go!

"Make exceptions?" Oh, you blew past that a while ago, dude. You're nipple deep in totally professionally compromised.

Oh, believe me, bro. You were never going to change any minds, only confirm all the accusations against you. Or prove you're a nitwit. Both, probably.

"The entire staff?" Hyperbole! It's such a fall color, though. Are you sure you want to keep going with that? (Hyperbole for $8 thousand million, Alex! Ohhh kay.)

"I'm not going to spend a minute looking for a better example, even though I fucked up and should actually be motivated to do so. I simultaneously cannot look up her info, yet could access her violations, which I'm not gonna do, because wah. So there! 🙊🙉🙈 And I'm going home to my mommy." 😭 B o o. H o o.

"If you don't like it, then you can get the FUCKout!" "I guess this platform just isn't for you people."

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I imagine you may be getting more than a few of these in the near future, but despite the previous decision made by your office regarding gender identity discrimination in moderation on Tumblr their CEO has spent a large portion of his night actively ranting about a trans woman that was banned, which seems immediately discriminatory considering this is not normal process for banned accounts on Tumblr (which he even acknowledged, saying company policy in these matters is normally to stay quiet). Furthermore I am concerned about his admission that as of last year, Tumblr did indeed have a transphobic moderator contracted who was also "selling moderation". Despite his claim of having spoken about this before, I had never heard or seen this anywhere on the site (nor had anyone else). Additionally, Matt gave no exact information on the date, but it seems to me that there is every chance this happened after the 180 days given to Tumblr for compliance, and I'm certainly confused as to how it happened if they had actually taken the measures in training and oversight that was asked of them. Beyond that, at least one former employee has noted that trans members of staff may be unfairly targeted for firing, and do not feel safe voicing concerns about transphobia and other possible discriminatory practices. Given that the CEOs behavior this evening involved banning other accounts critical of his decision and going so far as to private message individual users on the platform, I at minimum do not feel comfortable raising any discriminatory issue with Tumblr or Automattic staff given the possible repercussions, and his recent public statements regarding race and gender only suggest this issue will continue to worsen without intervention.

I thank you for your time in reading and hope that someone, possibly, can protect marginalized Tumblr users, because the one clear statement their CEO has made tonight is that he has no plans to, and I would argue he's actually made it less so.